 | Robert R. Alford, Roger Friedland - 1985 - 524 lapas
...GNP) was the most important correlate of the level of social security spending in sixty countries. Economic growth makes "countries with contrasting...for constructing the floor below which no one sinks" (p. 27). The states in industrialized societies also keep their citizens alive longer, creating both... | |
 | Raymond Richards - 2010 - 213 lapas
...growth is the dominant influence shaping modern societies. In the words of sociologist Harold Wilensky, "Economic growth makes countries with contrasting...constructing the floor below which no one sinks." 4 Industrialization, technological development, and urbanization bring similar problems to all countries.... | |
 | Christopher Pierson - 1998 - 252 lapas
...economic level and its demographic and bureaucratic correlates is support for a convergence thesis: economic growth makes countries with contrasting cultural and political traditions more alike in their [welfare state] strategy' 1Wilensky, 1975, p. 27). Thesis 1 The welfare state is a product of the needs... | |
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... economic growth makes countries with contrasting cultural and political traditions more alike in their strategy for constructing the floor below which no one sinks. 